hwmon, coretemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration
authorSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:41:11 +0000 (02:11 +0530)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:43:47 +0000 (13:43 +0100)
commit3289705fe2b429569f37730ecf660719b8924420
treeb4021a25d0da5fdebd2d87c81c5a0b1df10fb022
parentcf0485a2ac70acb1bc83f6310a7ebef3070f0333
hwmon, coretemp: Fix CPU hotplug callback registration

Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform
initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown
below:

get_online_cpus();

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);

register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

put_online_cpus();

This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the
cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently
with CPU hotplug operations).

Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback
registration is:

cpu_notifier_register_begin();

for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
init_cpu(cpu);

/* Note the use of the double underscored version of the API */
__register_cpu_notifier(&foobar_cpu_notifier);

cpu_notifier_register_done();

Fix the hwmon coretemp code by using this latter form of callback
registration.

Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c
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